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Local communities and collaborative forest management in West Bugwe Forest Reserve, Eastern Uganda.
(Medwell Publishing, 2013)
Bureaucratic controls over natural resources when tightened world over Uganda inclusive have often led to heightened conflicts amongst apparent stakeholders. This has furthered assault on the ecosystem rather than conservation ...
Assess Functionality of IMCI Spatial Facility Infrastructure and Policy Utilization in Trans-Nzioa County, Kenya
(Open Science Repository Medicine, 2013)
Implementation of integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), in a comprehensive and holistic approach, forms bench mark for basic child health in promoting celebration of fifth birth day for children below five ...
Mathematical Model for Pneumonia Dynamics with Carriers
(2013)
There are major advances which have been made to understand the epidemiology of infectious diseases. However, more than 2 million children in the developing countries still die from pneumonia each year. The efforts to ...
Finite Solvable Groups with 4-Regular Prime Graphs
(African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Master Thesis, 2013-05-23)
In this research project, we seek to address the problem of deciding which nite simple graph is a
prime graph of a nite group. In particular, we only focus on showing which 4-regular graphs can be
prime graphs of some ...
Response of the African nightshade to phosphate fertilizer application in Western Kenya
(Scholars Research Library, 2013)
Although the African nightshade is increasingly becoming an important vegetable in Kenya, the consumer demand has not been met due to its low yields occasioned by lack of fertilizer use. The general belief is that traditional ...
Sexual risk-taking behaviours among youth in secondary schools in Bondo district, Kenya
(2013)
Sexual intercourse is the highest mode of HIV/AIDS transmission among youth who become sexually active as early as at 13 years. There is a concern that vulnerability to sexual risk-taking behavior varies across groups of ...
Genetic differentiation of Artemia franciscana (Kellogg, 1906) in Kenyan coastal saltworks
(Gent University, Belgium, 2013)
The nature of genetic divergence between the Artemia population native to San Francisco
Bay, (SFB) USA and those from the introductions of SFB material in the Kenyan coast
(Fundisha and Kensalt) 2 decades ago were ...
Interleukin (IL)-13 promoter polymorphisms (-7402 T/G and-4729G/A) condition susceptibility to pediatric severe malarial anemia but not circulating IL-13 levels
(BioMed Central, 2013-12-01)
In holoendemic Plasmodium falciparum transmission areas such as western Kenya, severe malarial anemia [SMA,
hemoglobin (Hb) < 6.0 g/dL, with any density parasitemia] is the most common clinical manifestation of severe ...
The Global Burden of Severe Falciparum Malaria: An Immunological and Genetic Perspective on Pathogenesis
(Springer, New York, NY, 2013)
Plasmodium falciparum malaria is a leading global cause of morbidity and mortality of infectious disease origin. Here, we focus largely on P. falciparum malaria in sub-Saharan Africa since this geographic region bears the ...
Cryptococcus Meningitis in a Cohort of HIV Positive Kenyan Patients: Outcome after Two Weeks of Therapy
(East African Medical Journal, 2013)
Background: Cryptococcus meningitis is the most lethal meningitis in patients with
HIV/AIDS. It is invariably fatal if not treated appropriately and promptly. In sub-
Saharan Africa with the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS, ...